Piantastorie

Piantastorie

Creation of a collective identity through storytelling

Piantastorie was the kickoff event of a permanent community garden in Bovisasca neighborhood. The aim of this event was to collect stories from the citizens, to build a collective identity of this peripheral but very dynamic area. In order to do that, we created a video set to record the stories and a toolkit to guide the interviews.

Co-workers

Lesley Ann Culla

Agata Brilli

Giulia Bifronte

Francesca Bertino

Supervisors

Davide Fassi

Laura Galluzzo

Year & Place

2015

Politecnico di Milano

The kickoff day was organized by Politecnico di Milano and it was called “Il Sabato della Bovisasca”. Piantastorie was one of many different activities that was held on that kickoff day, aiming to gather the community and to draw their attention to the new community garden area.

The kickoff day was organized by Politecnico di Milano and it was called “Il Sabato della Bovisasca”. Piantastorie was one of many different activities that was held on that kickoff day, aiming to gather the community and to draw their attention to the new community garden area.

Through Piantastorie, we collected people’s memories. To do so, we developed a collection of simple toolkits. We placed on each one a picture of a symbolic place of the neighborhood, so that people could recognize it and immediately remind an experience they had, related to that place.

The kit also included a small branch of aromatic plant, to be planted at the end of the interview in the garden bed we built. The use of the toolkit was very helpful to avoid the initial shyness of the respondents in front of the camera, but also to easily light up their memory and help them finding a memory to share with us.

The kit also included a small branch of aromatic plant, to be planted at the end of the interview in the garden bed we built. The use of the toolkit was very helpful to avoid the initial shyness of the respondents in front of the camera, but also to easily light up their memory and help them finding a memory to share with us.